Game stops responding when dialog starts

[Leon]

I have this curious problem with a few older games. The games are usually around the Win95 start age.

I've encountered it so far with Granny Zombiekiller and Ernie's Big Adventure II leaving them unplayable.

The game runs fine until a dialog-option appears. The cursor disappears, though the dialog options stay selectable (read change colour) when moving the 'ghost' pointer over it. You can't select (read press enter) any of the dialogs and you can't play the game anymore since you can't exit the dialog. Only option left is to crash the game.

I've tried the games on several machines with several OS'es varying from genuine W95 to Virtual Machine with emulated W95. All with the same effect. So I start thinking it's the game. Or do I need extra drivers/software to play these? I can't find any info about it in the readme's.

Does anyone have the same experience and/or a solution?

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

It all sounds very familiar to me, but I could always click the selected options and get on with the game... I do assume you haven't just pressed enter without clicking... what about pressing a number key(1, 2, 3...), does it work?

[Leon]

... what about pressing a number key(1, 2, 3...), does it work?

Nope, also doesn't work. Side effect is that the pointer disappears so the game is 'pointless' (in both ways).

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Odd. I mean, I lost the pointer too, but I got it back when I exited the dialog, and I could still click on options...

...ah well, sorry I can't help more.

[Pumaman]

This may have been a bug with older versions of AGS, but if so I can't suggest any solutions to it unfortunately.

Have you tried both windowed and full-screen?

[Leon]

Whoooaaaaa.......... that did it! Playing full screen does the trick! That I never came up with that. Thanks (puma)man!

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

That also explains why I never had the exact problem... kewl.